SELINSGROVE, PA - Susquehanna baseball returned home for a windy Tuesday afternoon matchup with reigning national champions Misericordia, falling 13-7 in a game that featured two rain delays.

Misericordia recorded 21 hits in the game, and hit safely in every inning. After being held off the board in the first, they managed nine in the next three frames, with the first rain delay sandwiched in between.

After the second rain delay, the River Hawks came out hot in the bottom of the sixth, when CJ Orrego started a rally by being hit by a pitch, Jaden Buechler beat out an infield single and Tyler Hmielewski singled to load the bases. Lucas Zachesky doubled to score two, and a sac fly off the bat of Christian Biuso made it 9-3.

Misericordia added another run in the seventh, two in the eighth, and a final tally in the ninth to go up 13-3. However, the River Hawks went down fighting, scoring four in the ninth on a Cam Eberly infield single and a Jack Cahill RBI double to score Eberly. Owen Ayers walked, Rocco Scarpitti singled home Cahill, and Austin Wenger delivered a two-run single in his first career at-bat with two outs, to make it 13-7.

Christian Rossi earned a first career start, but was stuck with a loss after 1.2 innings where he allowed one earned run. Jacob Klotz threw a team-high two innings while not allowing an earned run on the day. Nine different River Hawks recorded hits, including three from Hmielewski and two each courtesy of first-years Buechler and Zachesky.

With the defeat, the River Hawks drop to an even 14-14 on the year. They welcome Elizabethtown to Bollinger Field for a three-game weekend set starting on Friday, April 18th.